Re: thermostat

Neill wrote:
> Does anyone know what the temperature rating of the thermostat that
> is fitted to a 1900 td xantia is?
> My temerature guage sits at 80 degrees when warmed up ad the heater
> is just bearly hot. I have read that the stat should begin to open at
> 88 degrees c and be fully open at 99 degrees c, I havent had the car
> long and was wondering if maybe the wrong (too low) stat has been
> fitted?

Wot Adrian says. A quick scan of a Pug manual (ok not for that engine)
would 
suggest that starting to open at 88 is right. You might try flu****ng out
the 
heater matrix. I've done this on a Pug 106 using a garden hose clamped to
a 
bit of copper pipe jubilee clipped to the heater matrix feed pipe.  A semi

solid lump of rust shot out of the other end like a turd after a curry the

night before. Hey presto hot heater.

-- 
Malc
Oh, but the rain wasn't made of water
and the snow didn't have a place in the sun
so we slipped behind a rainbow
and lay there until we had done.